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CAMILLO BOCCACCINO | Testa di uomo anziano | Uffizi, Sala 23 | Versione integrale | La narrazione è di Maria Spanò, la voce di Arianna Scommegna | Leggi la scheda completa dell'opera su uffizi.it   Camillo Boccaccino | Head of Old Man | Room 23  He brought me here. We met in the Gallery on a November afternoon, in the room where I was working. He was immersed in his thoughts, and I in mine. Just a few tourists around, and a calm atmosphere in the shadowy autumn light. I looked up and saw him. I had never met him, yet he was there, where he had always been. This is what happens when there is so much beauty all around you. Then, a second of harmony, which is like a small jolt for you... And there it was, that bent head of an old man. A prophet? A saint? A wise man? Like a gush of water, for me, he is my grandfather, Armando. An elementary schoolteacher with a passion for Greek and Latin, just a few things in his backpack and, on the day after 8th September 1943, the long walk home, from Rome to Sicily